sheepherder
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Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022
Sen. Paul Laxalt — the son of a Basque immigrant sheepherder.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021
A piglet unexpectedly becomes a champion sheepherder with training from his adoptive canine mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019
His mother died of cancer several months after he was born, and his father sent the boy and a sister to live with their grandparents in Montrose, Colo., while he worked as a sheepherder.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2018
At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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